

However, applications that scale-up, such as e-commerce or data warehousing applications, benefit from having all the data and processing on a single server cluster. In those cases, organizations are better off distributing the application server functions to multiple Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition systems, or even Windows Web Server 2008 R2 systems. Typical scale-out applications include web server services, electronic messaging systems, and file and print servers. Scale-out refers to an application that performs better when it is distributed across multiple servers, whereas scale-up refers to an application that performs better when more processors are added to a single system. Or call to find a Microsoft Partner in your region: In the United States, call (800) 426-9400. The Datacenter Edition is focused at organizations that need scale-up server technology to support a large centralized data warehouse on one or limited numbers of server clusters.Īs noted in Chapter 34 on performance and capacity analysis, an organization can scale-out or scale-up its server applications. Find a Microsoft Partner to get pricing and purchasing details. The Datacenter Edition supports organizations that need more than eight core processors. They only work in conjunction with a KMS server.Windows Server 2008 R2, Datacenter Edition is a high-end datacenter class version of the operating system that supports very large-scale server operations. Note: You cannot use a GVLK by itself to activate a Microsoft product. In the table below, Windows versions ending with "E" are the international versions, and those ending with "N" are the versions without Windows Media Player. If you are unsure of the exact version of Windows, click on the Start orb, right-click Computer, and select Properties from the menu that appears. You'll use the appropriate GVLK to update installations of Windows that used MAK activation to the new (November 2010) MKS activation method. Use this table to find the correct Generic Volume License Key (GVLK) to use our Key Management Service (KMS) with the edition of Windows installed on your computer.
